Mustela putorius Linnaeus 1758

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Mustela putorius Linnaeus 1758

Mustela putorius Linnaeus 1758 , Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 46 .

Type Locality: "inter Europae rupes et lapidum acervos", restricted by Thomas (1911 a) to " Scania, S. Sweden." .

Vernacular Names: European Polecat.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Mustela putorius subsp. putorius Linnaeus 1758

Subspecies Mustela putorius subsp. anglia Pocock 1936

Subspecies Mustela putorius subsp. aureola Barrett-Hamilton 1904

Subspecies Mustela putorius subsp. caledoniae Tetley 1939

Subspecies Mustela putorius subsp. furo Linnaeus 1758

Subspecies Mustela putorius subsp. mosquensis Heptner 1966

Subspecies Mustela putorius subsp. rothschildi Pocock 1932

Distribution: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britian, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Reviewed by Heptner et al. (1967). Probable ancestor of the domestic ferret, M. p. furo ( Rempe, 1970; Volobuev et al., 1974). Youngman (1982) and Abramov (1999) placed it in the subgenus Putorius . Pocock (1936 b) and Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1966) considered eversmanii and putorius conspecific; however, Ognev (1931), Stroganov (1962), and Heptner et al. (1967), recognized them as distinct species. Synonyms allocated according to Heptner et al. (1967).